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The man with courage is a majority.

Andrew Young

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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